Word: chattel
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...convinced of the defendant's guilt "beyond a reasonable doubt," the reform in the rape law itself is long overdue. Marriage vows do not entail the right to sexually assault one's partner. Criminal codes that support such a notion clearly suggest the idea of "mate as chattel" rather than the American ideal of equal protection under...
...useful, though not extenuating, to point out that Americans did not invent slavery. Their form of chattel slavery, however, was uniquely ugly. Still, slavery has a long, dishonorable history. The Sumerians of Mesopotamia kept slaves before 2000 B.C., and the Code of Hammurabi laid down rules governing the practice. In eight years, Caesar sent back some 500,000 slaves from Gaul to work mines, plantations and public projects; some, of course, became gladiators. The Domesday Book recorded 25,000 slaves in England. Races from the Mayans to the Muslims to, notably, black Africans have kept slaves for many centuries...
...opens with a detailed presentation and analysis of the role of rape in history. "Only when all accounts of rape are collected and correlated does the true underside of women's history emerge," she writes. In almost every society, women have been regarded as male-owned chattel. Because they have been thus dehumanized their violation has historically been seen, not as an attack on a person, but rather, as the defilement of another man's goods. Brownmiller writes...
...about $8.36 million. On his tax returns, his $94,744 in deductions included a hefty $20,434 in mortgage interest payments and $8,180 in real estate taxes for his home in McLean, Va., $3,171 for his house in Hyannis Port, Mass., plus $3,890 interest on a chattel mortgage for his 50-ft. sloop Curragh. He also claimed losses of $3,938 from two rental properties in Boston and Madison, Wis. Though the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, of which the Senator is president, has given an average $2 million a year to charity since 1946, Kennedy made...
...beachboy Hamlet, Travis McGee. This paladin is a roughneck who lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., despoiling stewardesses and brooding about the decline of the West. He quests forth, when funds are low, to do battle for the dread forces of reality-a Robin Hood among chattel rustlers who steals loot back from thugs and swindlers and returns it, minus a 50% commission, to the widows and orphans from whom it was taken. Oftener than not a girl enters the picture. Part of the game is to guess whether she is a thug, swindler, widow or orphan...